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This is a nightshade eating machine, they're tiny at the mo, but will be really big when all fattened up.
We often get them in our garden on the tomato plants and can hear them munching away, but are usually unable to find them until they reach hotdog size. We frequently give them to neighbors with chickens.
They get fucking huge... Like, almost hotdog size.
When we were working in the fields one of my uncles would always bite them in half to kill them to freak out the kids. They're basically just water and nicotine on the inside.
I was going to say, this has to be the most hopped-up animal in the kingdom.
What do they taste like? Do you get a nicotine buzz from eating them? Why not collect 'em when they're big, dry them out, and sell them as nicotine jerky?
What do they taste like?
Like a cucumber?
They're literally just water and nicotine, I guess a little bit of sugar?
Do you get a nicotine buzz from eating them?
You get a buzz just working in tobacco fields. Just being sweaty and rubbing against leaves is like a nicotine patch.
Any "buzz" I got was more from being a kid biting a caterpillar. Eating a green leaf tho, put me on my ass and turned my poop green for like a week.
Why not collect 'em when they’re big, dry them out, and sell them as nicotine jerky?
An acre of tobacco produces thousands of pounds of dried leaves... Only sells for a dollar or two a pound, trying to raise the worms would cost more in the tobacco to feed them then you'd ever get from selling them.
It's not like we were eating them as a snack, it was a hillbilly prank an uncle would play on us then all the kids obviously had to try it to see how gross it was.
Sounds awesome, though.
I'm not sorry I gave up smoking, but I do miss it sometimes. A tobacco farm sounds like a lot of fun.
a lot of fun
I mean, it was back breaking physical labor...
Almost everything is done by hand. For example to harvest you chop the plant down with a hatchet, then impale it on a wooden stake about five feet long with a removable metal spear tip.
I started doing that job at like 10?
For us it was cool because the whole extended family grew it. So when it was time to do something, we all worked each other's fields like a swarm of locusts. So it was like a big family reunion and bonding thing.
But the work itself sucked.
Tillsonburg, Tillsonburg
My back still aches when I hear that word.
But you're, like, 6"6, all muscle as a result, right?
"Why, yes, I did work on a tobacco farm when I was a child... why do you ask? We ate tobacco caterpillars for lunch, and chewed raw tobacco leaves as snacks."
Nah. I'm 6'4...
Kill it with fire!
My tomato plants will thank you.
We would just go down the rows of plants, pick them off with our hands and throw them on the ground with enough force to kill them.